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[CursiveCardinal]

 Hello Mass Effect Community I post this message today about me
writing a book.

But what would this book be about? Well I’ve done lots of
research in to the back story of mass effect after completing my 3rd
play through of the series and found that there wasn’t a lot of information
given about one of my favourite video gaming species the Quarian’s.

Ok so the book will be about the Quarian’s but from what
aspect well I aim to go all the way back to the Quarian Geth war because this
was one of the aspects of the story to me that should of got more attention at
least some form of DLC that would go into more of the wars back story.

We know most of what happened but not all of it like: how
did the Geth get to the point of being VI’s to have a complex neural network it’s
not as if they could do this by themselves, what would make the Quarian’s even
what to attempt creating such advanced machines for ‘labourer’ got to have been
something else going on here.

So with that I hope you get the idea lots of unexplained things
going on here, so this where I come in I want to make a book that would have
characters and a few plots in it explaining how this happened and reasoning.

The plan, well the plain would be to make 2 books. The first
would be more of the beginning and go into sorts of pre-war culture. Wait what
did I just say pre-war? Yes I just did I would like to try and interpret what Quarian’s
did and views on the universe just before the war (just to be clear it would be
a basic over view not a story in its own) and what the citadel council thought
of Quarian’s because as far as I know they weren’t a much talked about race. Another
view would be the eyes of the research and scientists who created the Geth and
who over seen the evolution from simple VI to a complex Neural network.

The second Book is going to be how the Geth took over the
planet and logic behind their reasoning for letting the last remaining Quarian’s
live(as much as I’m going to say at this point still need to work out some
details)            

So a few other house keeping things: NO reapers are going to
be in the story, the story will only have the point of view from the Quarian’s
and Geth (maybe) no other race (note I haven’t 100% confirmed this there maybe
a few very small side plot’s)

So this seems like a massive undertaking and I realise this
after all of this typing. I am a devoted fan towards the series and I’ve got
lots of ideas for these books I would also like to say that these books will
remain as cannon and law friendly as I can get through with my interpretation
of their story.

Just going to say this one more time MY interpretation I am willing
to take in ideas and feedback as I begin to come up with characters and plots
for them. This is a book for the community so this won’t cost money unless somehow
I get a book deal to write more, the first 2 will always be free.

So I’m going to do some more plot planning ect now but if
this gets a bit of attention then I will post the prologue to the starting of
the first book. Thank you for your time to read this means a lot to me I thought
I would just post my 20cents worth. ANY feedback is welcome.

CursiveCardinal (Jason)  

P.S if this idea has somehow already been finished well I’m
sorry my research did not show that the idea was already taken

      

Modifié par CursiveCardinal, 05 février 2013 - 09:55 .

[Sofie1991]

Well hey there.

I'd say it sounds like a very interesting thing to read about. Most of it is in fact undocumented, leaving you with a lot of free space to be creative in. But to go about and writing a whole book might be a very big challenge.

Personally I believe that you should start with writing short stories and fanfic like I do. Go at it scene per scene, chapter per chapter. And on the subject, you can do a Quarian perspective and a Geth perspective. That would be very interesting.

[CursiveCardinal]

Sofie1991 wrote...

Well hey there.

I'd say it sounds like a very interesting thing to read about. Most of it is in fact undocumented, leaving you with a lot of free space to be creative in. But to go about and writing a whole book might be a very big challenge.

Personally I believe that you should start with writing short stories and fanfic like I do. Go at it scene per scene, chapter per chapter. And on the subject, you can do a Quarian perspective and a Geth perspective. That would be very interesting.

Thanks for replying, as you say scene by scene does sound like the best way to go about it. The second book I would like to do a Geth perspective but for the first book I may leave it just leave it at Quarian tho as you say lots of free space to fill.

Just a side note once I start writing I will document this via the provided blog serivce (will update the main post when i start writing with link to the blog)

[Sofie1991]

Yeh, looking forward to seeing your stuff. I'm just writing my own if you wanna check it out. It's the Sira I'riane thread if you hadn't figured that yet ^^

[MrStoob]

I'd recommend doing a few 'one shots' to get into the writing 'mood' and iron out any potential issues (I have no idea of your writing abilities/style but this is good to do regardless). Maybe upload to FF.net and get honest appraisal before going for a whole book. But good luck!

Edit: oh, and of course the writer's support thread will help how we can.

Modifié par MrStoob, 05 février 2013 - 05:19 .

[CursiveCardinal]

MrStoob wrote...

I'd recommend doing a few 'one shots' to get into the writing 'mood' and iron out any potential issues (I have no idea of your writing abilities/style but this is good to do regardless). Maybe upload to FF.net and get honest appraisal before going for a whole book. But good luck!

Edit: oh, and of course the writer's support thread will help how we can.

Alright, I have writen few stories for halo along time ago but over time I lost my original copys as I never really got around to uploading them and correcting grammar ect. Oh and yes I was considering uploading my Chapters to ff.net. Also what would you recommend for appraisal? Should I get a few people to look over my work and provide feed back? any places I should put my chapters for them to be seen. I am relatively new to this website still getting to know my way round.

[Sofie1991]

Well I posted mine in blog form on the site and made a thread with links to them.
Posted them on ff.net tonight hoping for some more feedback.
Actively spread word of your stories and people will start reading them

[arne1234]

I've for a time flirted with the idea to write a GETH Quarian story in the sence of the novel: "warm bodies" by isaac marion I've think it would actually work better this way because you could remove the pseudo magic. I will probably never wright it tought.
(and considering it would span from yust before the uprising until a GETH unit helps a girl escape to what will become the flotila it would have a more depressing ending tough)
read http://www.burningbu....com/zombie.htm to have a impression abouth the book

In either case good luck

[ashtrails]

Basically what MrStoob said.
Your project seems pretty enormous and has a lot of potential. So yeah, get in the right mood, find your style, your flaws etc before you actually tackle it right away.

Also, make sure to give what you wrote to people who're honest with you.
Even the best of us **** up and you need someone who tells you exactly that, pointing out weak points any story is bound to have.
From my exeprience, people often are happy enough that there's a story for free featuring some characters they like, most of them probably won't comment.
You rarely get serious feedback through posting things online. So, yeah, pick some good souls before relying on the internet ;D


Don't know if you're a regular, so I'll work with what I know:
If a couple of Halo-shots is all you ever did in regards of writing, depending on the feedback you already got, make yourself familiar (again) with some techniques etc.
Though writing's often intuitive, there ARE certain rules to storytelling. Basic stuff one can screw up anyway.
There are a lot of places where you can read that stuff up, also workshops and things like that. Would highly recommend one of those.

Otherwise, best of luck

[MrStoob]

I have found though, it is difficult to get totally honest critical appraisal through FF.net reviews. I occasionally look over my chapters and find glaring typos, misspelt names, missing apostrophes, etc, etc. but these are not mentioned by the reviewers. I could take it as a compliment that the story/writing is good enough to overlook these errors but it'd be nice to know they are there so I can fix them sooner rather than later.

There is a 'beta reader' function on FF.net (never used it myself) where fellow enthusiasts will give proper 'critique'.

[MrStoob]

CursiveCardinal wrote...

MrStoob wrote...

I'd recommend doing a few 'one shots' to get into the writing 'mood' and iron out any potential issues (I have no idea of your writing abilities/style but this is good to do regardless). Maybe upload to FF.net and get honest appraisal before going for a whole book. But good luck!

Edit: oh, and of course the writer's support thread will help how we can.

Alright, I have writen few stories for halo along time ago but over time I lost my original copys as I never really got around to uploading them and correcting grammar ect. Oh and yes I was considering uploading my Chapters to ff.net. Also what would you recommend for appraisal? Should I get a few people to look over my work and provide feed back? any places I should put my chapters for them to be seen. I am relatively new to this website still getting to know my way round.

Specifically... hmm.  All I personally did was uploaded to FF, put the links in my sig and hung about the writer's thread and seemed to get a fair number of readers (usually 100+ readers per chapt for book 1).  My first 'book' just topped 100 reviews for 62 chapters, but as I said above, very few critical analyses.  It seems to be hard to get someone to come along and say, "there were errors here, here and here and you need to work on your <insert thing here>."  Usually it's like "I liked that bit." which of course is nice, but doesn't help me progress where I need to.  Unless you do something horribly wrong, it's hard to get honest appraisal when you're preaching to the converted, i.e. writing ME stories for ME fans.

The most negative review I've received I asked for lol.  After a lot of the 'Liara the stalker hate' threads back in the day, I wrote a one-shot where M!Shepard does indeed say to Liara 'stop following me around, I don't need you, I've got Tali' and how that destroys Liara.  I knew exactly what I was doing with that story and how some would take it.  The reviewer was evidently a Talimancer hehe.

For reference, I've recently had a dabble in Skyrim FF.  I didn't advertise anywhere and got readers on FF.net almost straight away.  Seems the 'reader only' members of the FF.net community are always looking for something new to read.

[CursiveCardinal]

Thanks for all of the reply's, I will differently look into all of them. Started to write the first chapter today possibly the hardest part trying to introduce a lot of concepts that will be apparent throughout all of the chapters while not overloading the reader with information at the same time and keeping it interesting at the same time. Slowly but surely.

[Methaluan_Sylver]

Good luck with that, looking foward to see the result, I like fan made content a lot.

As long Bioware does not mind if you use they stuff, I dont think you need to worry about anyone else. Every fan fiction even if is about the same is difrent, and that is also kind of the point mass effect as a game, difrent ways to go about doing the same.

[CursiveCardinal]

Methaluan_Sylver wrote...

Good luck with that, looking foward to see the result, I like fan made content a lot.

As long Bioware does not mind if you use they stuff, I dont think you need to worry about anyone else. Every fan fiction even if is about the same is difrent, and that is also kind of the point mass effect as a game, difrent ways to go about doing the same.

Will, the only thing 4 main things i will be using is the Council, the Citadel, the Quarian's and the geth not really to much else. Everything else I will have to come up with basicly by myself. tho I do use the wiki page occasionally to check that what I'm writing dosen't some how conflict with the story of mass effect on the whole.

Oh and what do people think of using this as the main characteristecs for Quarian buildings.

This building according to the Quarian wiki page served as the main insperation for Quarian building design.

[MrStoob]

Methaluan_Sylver wrote...
As long Bioware does not mind if you use they stuff, I dont think you need to worry about anyone else. Every fan fiction even if is about the same is difrent, and that is also kind of the point mass effect as a game, difrent ways to go about doing the same.

I mailed Chris Priestly and as long as you don't claim to be from BioWare, it's all good 

And indeed, most FF writers write about the bits you DON'T see.  That's where the fun's to be had and you can go wild!  

[Methaluan_Sylver]

MrStoob wrote...

I mailed Chris Priestly and as long as you don't claim to be from BioWare, it's all good 

And indeed, most FF writers write about the bits you DON'T see.  That's where the fun's to be had and you can go wild!  

Yes, I attemped to create a FF myself but my English literary skills are not enough for transmiting my ideas to the reader and in my native language(portugues) just does not work to make a space/futurist type story , but I had plenty of Idea myself. 

I still have them saved on .txt or a sunny day I feel inspired.

About the building design, I would cross the geth ships, the quarian fleet, and use the ruins of Haestrom and Rannoch as a guide. That building can be a good guideline too.

[CursiveCardinal]

Hmmm, good idea :-)

[CursiveCardinal]

Will started to write the prologue today, got about half way then realized that wasn't very good so having to start again. Slow but surely.